The Giants are on the verge of naming their fifth GM since 1979.

Friday should be the day.

San Francisco 49ers assistant GM Adam Peters’ Thursday trip to the Giants’ facility in East Rutherford, N.J., wrapped up the second and final round of interviews.

The Giants have narrowed the field to three: Buffalo Bills assistant GM Joe Schoen, Kansas City Chiefs executive director of player personnel Ryan Poles, and Peters.

The Bills, Chiefs and 49ers all are still playing in this postseason, three of the eight teams still alive for this weekend’s Divisional playoff round.

The Giants, who have played and lost one playoff game in the last decade, are looking for a blueprint for modern relevance.

Schoen, 42, and Poles, 36, were the first two candidates to interview in both rounds: first via Zoom on Jan. 12, then with in-person visits this Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. Peters, 42, turned around quickly from Monday’s virtual interview to Thursday’s visit.

The Giants started with nine candidates, whittled the list down to three, and now will pick their man to hopefully lead the franchise out of the darkness.

Schoen presents as the most obvious hire for what the Giants need: a respected and experienced talent evaluator who has helped build a winner and pick a great quarterback before. He also has interviewed with the Chicago Bears.

“We are looking for a person who demonstrates exceptional leadership and communication abilities, somebody who will oversee all aspects of our football operations, including player personnel, college scouting and coaching,” co-owner John Mara said in a statement on Jan. 10.

Poles is an impressive candidate from a self-sustaining league powerhouse and Super Bowl championship team that drafted a great quarterback within the last five years.

Peters has pedigree from his work building the Denver Broncos’ Super Bowl 50 roster and contributing to the 49ers’ enviable recent success – though he did help draft Trey Lance, a raw developmental QB selected No. 3 overall last spring following a trade up.

All three candidates would be first-time GMs. But so far, the two coaches ticketed to likely interview for the head coaching job – Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn and ex-Dolphins coach Brian Flores – would not be first-time head coaches.

Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll would seem to be the ideal and most likely fit at head coach if Schoen lands the job. Daboll’s work helping Bills QB Josh Allen harness his raw talent to dominant levels is the envy of the entire league.

He is a New England Patriots product just like Joe Judge. In fact, he would have been Judge’s pick as Giants offensive coordinator two years ago if he’d been available.

But he would come with an offense and an experience with quarterbacks that the offensively-challenged Giants desperately need.

Former Eagles Super Bowl winning coach Doug Pederson, 49ers offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel, and Giants defensive coordinator Pat Graham all seem like candidates who could get a look, as well, based on connections to the GM candidates, the Giants’ needs or what might create a favorable match.

But a full list really won’t come together until the GM hire occurs. Wednesday’s request for Quinn only went out early because multiple candidates had him on their list, and the Giants didn’t want to see Quinn hired before talking to him, a source said.

The Giants were the last of eight teams with full-time head coaching vacancies to submit for a head coaching interview.

Now it’s time to hire the right man for the job and let him lead the search for the next coach who Mara and Steve Tisch will charge with turning their lost ship around.

“There are no package deals,” Mara said last week. “We want to get the general manager ideally done first and, obviously, we’ll talk about the candidates for head coach, but it’s not going to be a package deal. I want to go through a complete process here, interview as many people as possible. I don’t want to rush into anything – we made that mistake in the past.”

2022 OPPONENTS SET

The Giants’ home and away opponents for next season are locked in.

Home: Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Football Team, Baltimore Ravens, Carolina Panthers, Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts

Away: Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Football Team, Green Bay Packers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks, Tennessee Titans